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Remember when Reddit-style atheists tried to get other people to call them "Brights" for short?
Oh that somehow escaped me! I thought I really was on top of the euphoria posting, but it sounds absolutely hilarious and very on-brand
It wasn't far off from the much more successful (but still cringe) pitch for "singularity" cultists to brand themselves as capital-R "Rationalists." They may as well have called themselves the Very Smartists.
oh, that's when the gamergate crowd discovered atheism right? I tuned out after that. The Amazing Atheist was just peak cringe, but him going white supremacist (I forgot how open it was) turned it from
to 
It's not quite lined up chronologically; a lot of Reddit New Atheists were that first then became
gaters when their "debunk creationism" Youtube heroes chudded out.